With a round of openings this fall, Baltimore added a set of shared workspaces to the city.
It was the latest in a five-year period of similar growth for coworking in the city, and appears poised to continue given the recent news that WeWork will be moving into the city in 2020.
Yet as the number of spaces grows, it’s becoming evident that each brings an identity. In some cases, that’s place-based, as the shared office model is seen as a way to help communities like Hamilton-Lauraville and Dundalk galvanize “main street”–like neighborhood centers. Others are focused around a specific mission, or trace origins to a community that grew large enough to benefit from a physical home. It’s also evident that coworking isn’t just for software developers and designers, as the categories of businesses moving into these spaces are also expanding.
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